| Edison and the Business of Innovation Revised Edition Contributor(s): Millard, Andre (Author) |
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ISBN: 0801847303 ISBN-13: 9780801847301 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press OUR PRICE: $38.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 1993 Annotation: This is the story of the "other" Thomas Edison--not the heroic lone inventor, but Edison the businessman, industrialist, and successful manager of one of the world's largest industrial research laboratories. Tracing his career from his boyhood to his death in 1931, Edison and the Business of Innovation reveals Edison to be an entrepreneur of extraordinary vision. From extensive research in the Edison archives at West Orange, New Jersey, Andre Millard presents new information about Edison the businessman and provides new interpretations of old issues. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | History - Technology & Engineering | History - Technology & Engineering | Inventions |
| Dewey: 338.476 |
| Series: Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology |
| Physical Information: 1.01" H x 6.03" W x 8.96" (1.24 lbs) 408 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This is the story of the "other" Thomas Edison--not the heroic lone inventor, but Edison the businessman, industrialist, and successful manager of one of the world's largest industrial research laboratories. Tracing his career from his boyhood to his death in 1931, Edison and the Business of Innovation reveals Edison to be an entrepreneur of extraordinary vision. From extensive research in the Edison archives at West Orange, New Jersey, Andre Millard presents new information about Edison the businessman and provides new interpretations of old issues. |